UPDATE: More details emerge on missing fisherman’s identity

By
ROBERT CRAWFORD

Scientific testing has confirmed bones found in a cave near Currarong earlier this month are those of missing Sydney fisherman Sung-Su Cho, who was washed off rocks in December last year.

UPDATE: More details emerge on missing fisherman’s identity

Sung-Su Cho from a missing person’s poster displayed by his family.

A map showing the area where Mr Cho fell into the water and where he was later found. The start of the arrow is the point where he fell in at Beercroft Head Mermaid Inlet, and the head of arrow showing where his remains were located in a cave.

An extensive search last December failed to find the body of a Sydney fisherman washed off rocks near Currarong.

Closure for Sydney family

UPDATE: Police have confirmed bones found in a cave along the cliffs of Beecroft Peninsula earlier this month to be that of missing Sydney fisherman Sung-Su Cho.

The 28-year-old Winston Hills man, known as Andrew Cho, was washed off a rock platform while fishing with three friends at Mermaid Inlet near Little Beecroft Head at 2.20am on December 23 last year.

Police said he was not wearing a life jacket at the time.

DNA and dental records were used as part of the post mortem on the remains to determine it was the missing man.

A Currarong fisherman located bones, washed into a cave on June 13, about 250 metres south of Mermaid Inlet.

Police Rescue and Crime Scene officers used ropes to rappel into the cave the following day and discovered a number of skeletal remains, clothing and the remnants of a blue and white baby wading pool.

Despite an extensive search in the area last December by Port Kembla Water Police, PolAir, the Rescue Helicopter and Lifesaver Helicopter, volunteers from two Marine Rescue NSW vessels and the Nowra-Culburra Surf Club the missing man was not located.

In January this year police divers resumed the search for the missing man, searching rocks shelves in the area, but again failed to find him.